Website market data scraper with JS possible?

Question

Is it possible for me to make a program that takes data from yahoo finance and it find the highest and lowest gaining markets that day and put them in order from highest to least with JavaScript code ? Or do I need a different language ?

Answer 1

Here is the web scraping of top gainer from Yahoo Finance, try to add more filters to suit your requirements.

https://code.sololearn.com/Wd5q34HdUFbr/?ref=app

Learn more web scraping methods from here
https://www.sololearn.com/post/192670/?ref=app

Answer 2

It’s definitely possible. It is easier in Python as it has many libraries made for scraping, but if you know enough JavaScript almost anything can be done